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smew mr ha t jg the carolina watchman vol viii third series salisbury n c december 21 1876 no 10 ed w'kkki.y j j i'lu'nel eu and prop t k bruner associate ed si7bsckiption rates : ry r y ir payable in advance 2 no advertising hates : one inch one putrtlcason t oo tm . c - two pubuoauons 1 50 contra ' r:i '' '*â€¢ n '' m "'"' s '"' â€¢- â€¢ u ' ar - lkttki from washington jle universal topic democrats cheer fa â€” sherman to be president of the senau â€” northern democrats will sub wii if the senate scats hayes the ffousc will content itself with a pro test col waking's views washington i c , dec 9 1876 news : the residential muddle is the sole ionic of conversation in all circles here yâ€žu hear it in the capitol at lhe hotels md iudeed everywhere and yet nothing more can be learned here that in raleigh oi charlotte all that i can say is that our friends are hopeful of a peaceful so lution ll if rumored that the republi cans in id a caucus last night and bave determined to make senator sherman president of the senate if ihis should prove to be true the open attempt to htilk the voice of the two houses of con gress our friends hope will rather help than injure the right there is one thing certain lhat let the matt t result as it may peace will be preserved the northern democrats will submit and take these chances lo preserve civil lib erty d constitutional law through the future action of the two houses myopin imi is tiiat if the senate count in hayes the house will not go beyond a protest certainly will not at tempt to elect mr tilden wheu we recollect there is not . . democratic legislature in the north you will see at once how hopeless itch an attetupt must prove i have by i,d means given up all hope the action of the governor ot oregon may yet un ravel lhe gordinn knot it lhe congress decide thai the vice-president is merely g ministerial officer in counting and de claring the vote ih.it iil let iii the one vote foi tilden from oregon which will give him the constitutional majority li it should be decided lo go behind the cer tificate in lhat instance it opens the door and an invest igat ion iuto the vote of iln contested stales must follow of course mr bdiuuuds ot vermont has a propo onion before lhe senate to amend the constitution as to constitute the supreme courl lhe tribunal lo count the vote and delare lhe n-sult there are serious ob jections to this and it vill i think fail it is purely a political question and if adopted will do more to weakeu the con fidence titnl respecl the country has lor ibis august body than anything lhat lias ever happened our people should re main quiet an indiscreet act on the part ol any southern state will be quick ly seized upon and turned lo our disad vantage we in iy lose the fruit of our toil our hopes may be blighted but we will dot he one whit worse off than we have been for the past eight years our northern brethren love liberty but can not 1 thi:,k be made to believe that ii will be destroyed even if hayes is coun ted in by force and fraud your friend li p waking south arolina hampton inaugurated imposing ceremonies a lirtixc crowd â€” the house tops covered with spectators the inaugural address columbia s c dec 14 â€” the in auguration ot hampton took place in froul of arolina hall this afternoon thr square in front of the hall was densely packed by persons of both races and the house tons were covered with spectators at aaa o'clock hampton was escorted to the stand amid demoneia iiouboi greal enthusiasm the members of the geueral assembly occupied the pace immediately surrounding ibe stand with the crowd iu the rear gen hamp ton then read ins inaugural address t which lhe following is an extract gentlemen of the senate and house w representatives : it is with feeling of the profoundest solicitude that i assume the arduous duties and grave responsibil ities ol tbe high position to which lhe people of south carolina have called me i 'â€¢ amid events unprecedeuts iu this republic that 1 take the chair as chief magistrate ol ihis state in a time at profound peace when no legal officer hail been resisted in the proper discbarge ol h functions we have witnessed a specta cle abhorrent to every patriotic heart and fatal to republican institutions â€” federal troops used to promote the success of a political party undismayed though nx-cked by this gross violation of the fconstiiutjou of tlie country our people with a determination that no force could subdue oo fraud could defeat kept stead â– '}', and peacefully in the path of duty resf.lv.-d to assert tbeir right as american emen at ibe ballot box that great court f final resort before which must be tried the jruve question of tbe supremacy of l e constitution and the stability of nyr constituency and our institutions what the verdict of the people of south carolina hi been you need not be told it has vi rberated throughout the state and its echoes come back to us from every land here liberty is venerated declaring in tones that can not be mistaken that stand ing on the constitution ofour country we propose to obey the laws to preserve as far as in ue lies its peace and honor and to carry out in good faith every pledge made by us for reform and honest govern ment we intend to prove to the world the sincerity of our declarations that the sole motive which inspired the grand contest we have so successfully made was not the paltry ambition for party supremacy but tbe sacred hope of redeeming our state but it was sought to wrest the fruits of this victory from us by a gigantic fraud and a base conspiracy when the members elect of the general assembly re paired to the capitol to take seats armed soldiers of the federal government con fronted them and their certificates of elec tion were examined aud passed upon by a corporal of the guard it was amid these appaling scenes that the members of the general assembly were called on to assume their duties as the representatives of i free state and that state one of tbe original thirteen who won our independ ence and framed our constitution was j debarred the free exercise of their rights i bv the presence of an armed force a legal quorum ofthe lower house after i placing on record their protest quietly withdrew from the capitol and proceeded to organize that branch of the geueral assembly you bave seen a minority of the house usurp the powers of the whole body you have seen the majority expelu ed from their hall by threats of force you have seen persons having no shadow of a claim as members admitted to seats as representatives by the votes of men who themselves were acting in direct violation of the constitution and you have seen the last crowning act of infamy by which a candidate for the office of governor de feated by the popular vote had himself declared elecied by his conspirators it is due to my position as the chief magis trate of this commonwealth to place on ! record my solemn and indignant protest again t acts which i consider as subversive ol civil liberty aud destructive ofour form of government a great task is before the conservative party of this state tbey entered on ibis contest with a platform so broad so strong eo liberal that every honest citizen could stand upon it tbey recognized and accepted the amendments to the con stitution in good fiith they themselves to work reform and to establish good government they promised to keep up an efficient system of public education and ihey declared solemnly that all citizens of south carolina of both races and of tioth parties should be regarded equal in lhe eye of the law all to be fully protect ed in the enjoyment of every political tight now possessed by them to tbe faithful observance of these pledges we stand committed and as the representa tive of the conservative party i held myself bound by every dictate of honor and of good faith to use every effort to bave the pledges redeemed fully and hon estly let us show to all of tbein that tin true interest of both races can best be secured by cultivating peace and promo ting prosperity among all classes of our fellow citizens i rely confidently on the support of the membeia of the general assembly in my efforts to attain these laudable ends and i trust that all branch es of the government will unite cordially in this patriotic work ll so united and working with resolute will and earnest determination we may hope soon lo see the dawn of a brighter day for our stale god in his infinite mercy grant that it may come speedily a;id may he shower the richest blessings of peace and happi ness on our whole people at the close of the address the oath of office was administered by trial justice marshall hampton as governor and to w d simpson as lieu't governor the crowd standing uncovered while tbe cer emony was being performed the chair in which gen hampton was seated wa then wrapped in the national colors and lie was borne on the shoulders ofa dozen men to liis hotel escorted by the entire crowd several promiueut gentlemen addressed the multitude from the front of the hotel the congressional committee occupying a prominent position on oue of the balconies after which the crowd quietly dispersed indiana an appeal lhat means something â€” the lhe people thoroughly aroused â€” the constitution mast be kept inviolate ixnianarolis dec 14 â€” the demo cratic committee has issued an address io the people of indiana which calls upon all people without respect to party who make our country's welfare paramount to every other consideration all who say that the vote of the people shall not be defeated by fraud and all who stand by fair-play and honesty to meet at their coun ty seats on december 23d to make expres sion ofthe popular judgment that cannot be disregarded and to appoint men as their delegates to a slate convention on january 8th who will fearlessly and pru i dently make such declaration and take action as will give our state her proper : position and influence in maintaining the i constitution the government and its rights aud the liberties of the people washington dec 14 â€” tbe counter statement signed by secretary chandler furnished to tbe press at midnight con â€¢ eludes hayes and wheeler are elected and the will of tbe american people will be carried otftand ujaiuuiued the blue ridge blade of the 12th announces tbe death on tuesday morning last of col w f mckesson of mor ganton south carolina returns in the office of the secretary of state shows hampton's election â€” the secretary so certifies under seal of the state washington d c , dec 15.â€”be fore the inauguration of hampton speak er wallace produced and read the follow ing official statement from the secretary of state : vote for governor elected in 1876 hampton 92,261 votes chamberlain 91,127 votes office of the sec y of state / columbia s c dec 9 76 $ i j ii e hayne secretary of state do h#reby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct statement of the vote for gov ernor at the general election of 1876 as ap pears by the commissioners 1 returns now ou file at this office given under my hand and tbe seal ofthe state at columbia this the 9th day of december 1s76 and in th 100th year of ainericau independence signed j ii e hayxr sec'y of state columbia dec 15 â€” the house com mittee examined several witnesses and have obtained returns from nearly all the precincts but about fifteen which will be supplied by testimony w d simpson democratic lieutenant governor to-day sent a letter to lhe senate claiming his election and demanding bis seat as pre siding officer of that body the letter was read and referred to the judiciary committee for report another ballot was taken to-day for united states sen ator by the democrats iu joint session the vote was scattering no choice louisiana where the affidavits of the returning hoards are prepared new orleans dec 15 clover supervisor of east biton rouge submit ted a copy of the affidavit which accom panied his returns alleging riot tumult vialence fear dread terrorism through out the parish on the day of the election clover diil not witness violence was in formed of it t)n cross examination he said the affidavit was prepared in the custom house of this city hugh j campbell assisted in preparing it chamberlain's incendiaries at work charleston dec 15 twenty stores and residences including the depot ex press and telegraph office at blackevillp barnwell county were burned loss 840,000 il is believed to be the work of an incendiary also a 11,000 incen diary fire in florence the public debt the effort made by the legislature o ls74-'?5 to consolidate the debt of the state proves iu the main almost entirely fruitless the act of 1874-"75 entitled an act to compromise commute and settle the stale debt authorized the issuance f new bonds of the slate for certain classes of old bonds at rates fixed by the statute the whole scheme res ted upou the willingness of the creditors to make the exchange provided for and the law was therefore experimental in its nature intending it as such a period was fixed for the operations of the act section 9 says that the provisions of this act for tbe exchange and issue of bonds shall continue in force until the first day of january 1878 " but a short time then remaius for the further execu tion ofthe act and unless re-enacted it must soon become a dead letter on the statute books in a cornmunicatian from the slate treasurer to the general asÂ«embly which we point an another page this morning it is distinctly set forth to whtu extent there has been a compliance on the part of the creditors of the state wit ii tha act of 1874-'75 nothing has been done by the treasurer towards carrying the act into effect the reasons for this are fully stated the sum of it is that the public creditors declined the propo sition of the state mr jenkins reports that up to june 24 1s7g there had been only 2:2 s00 offered calling for 89,030 of bond and that at that dale 8483,600 more were offend calling for 8121,350 of the new bonds as the expanse of en graving bonds would be considerable mr jenkins did not think it advisable to in cur such expeuses when only about one bond in fifteen or twenty would be brought in in addition to this he gives other substantial reasons for his uou-co-n plidiice â€” such as the physicial impossi bility to sign lhe coupons as required and sundry defects in the law which would be developed in its execuiion on the whole it was manifestly bis duty to defer tbe matter to the nipeting of the general assembly when the defective portions ofthe act might be cured the question now arises shall this act be re enacted after the 1st of january next with amendments suggested by the wisdom of the present legislature or shall the law be allowed to become a dead letter and the whol6 question of the settlement of the public debt be suffered to fall back to where il was before the act passed by the last general assem bly ? tbe subject is one of vital importance to north carolina i'he duty of re-es tablishing at the earliest possible moment the credit of the state rests npon us with paramount obligations at this time it is a duty which should be boldly met and discharged for iu the language of the preamble to the act of 1874-'75 the good people of this state are desirous of assuming and paying to the public cred itor's so much of the just debt of the state aa their unfortunate condition will allow â€” ral newe j no illusions ! - this is no time to indulge in pleasing illusions what the people should un derstand is the exact truth startling and revolting as it may be in stating this trutb we do not proceed upon imagina tion or conjecture the plan is clearly defined and proclaimed by republicans themselves without any effort at disguise or concealment by law the votes of the electoral col leges are to be counted on the second wednesday in february and that law it is proposed to respect hitherto this du ty has been discharged in the hall of the house of representatives on occasion of the last three elections the rule has prevailed and has not been disputed or queslioned that while the counting was done by the two houses together as has been the practice from the beginning of the government the objection of either house to the vote of any state sufficed to exclude that state altogether from the count now however a different meth od is to be introduced the opening of the votes and the counting is to be done in the senate chamber because ai the washington correspondent of the tribune informs the public ihere are grave reasons why the senate should not put itself in the power of the house which need not now be more than hinted at the president of the senate having the returns in big hands is to open those that he deems proper to count them by himself alone and declare the result as he sees it only those envelopes from the disputed states that he knows to contain votes for hayes will be opened by him and the others will be altogether ignored whether they contain a governor's certificate or not the house is to be invited to be present in the senate chamber but is not to be allowed to have any voice as regards the coon ting to offer objections to the vote of any state or to take any action what ever beyond being present to witness what is done and said by tbe president of lhe senate thus mr hayes is to be declared elected and if the house should make any troublesome demonstration gen grant will deal with it if said grant on sunday as he is reported iu the a y times of yesterday if there should be any necessity for more troops he would order them to washington we should have peace if we had to fight for it next comes the inauguration on the 4th of march this is also to be managed by gen grant with the soldiers and the bayonets of the united states this scheme involves the necessity for getting control of the house of repre sentatives aud this cud is to be attained by means similar to those employed to make hayes president by counting out mimbers really elected in louisiana south carolina and florida tbe actual democratic majority in lhe next house is believed to have been already reduced to only one member while there are three vacancies in new hampshire t > be filled at the annual election in march next these three vacancies must be filled by republicans a year ago the tribune in a long review of new hampshire poli tics stated that any election in lhat state could be carried by bribery by this means or by any other it is intended that after mr hayes has been inaugura ted a working majority shall be made for him in the house of representatives since without this it would be impossible for him to carry on the government as it is not expected that tiie present house will vote any general appropriations that can be availed of after thp end of the present fiscal year this is the scheme just us it stands for this scheme the republican party and all the statesmen of lhat parly so far stand responsible no voice of dissent against it has yet been heard fiom any republican quarter influential or not in fluential the republicans have the physical power tbe army is theirs just as the returning boards of the south are theirs and no illusion about tbeir purpose to use this power to the bitter end can auy longer be admitted the consummation of their purpose means lhe end of government by the people through elections and the substitu tion of government by an oligarchy of officeholders through public robbers or . ganized as returning boards supported by soldiers and scorning law and lhe forms of law senator ferry the denial by mr ferry the praident of the senate that he had expressed the opinion that the president of lhe senate would count as well as open lhe electoral vote is a good sign unless mr ferry does so hold it would seem impossible to carry out the radical programme mr ferry was by a formal resolution of the senate declared to be the president of lhe senate during the present congress this was done after the death of vice president wilson and in order to settle the right to the succession in case presi dent grant should die the radical pro gramme is to remove mr ferry and put senator sherman in his place to which little operation the michigan senator will doubtless very seriously object indeed it may be set down that without his ac tive co-operation the whole scheme will be a failure it is a matter of sincere con gratulation therefore to learn that he so emphatically denies having given expres sion to the opiniou altribated to bim â€” ral observer true the new york herald is in its radical week hut it very truly remarks that the refusal of the louisiana returning board to obey the subpoena of the committee of congress sent t investigate tbeir proceed ings does not look well â€” ral observer the two sets of^tom^utrtees both houses of congress have ap pointed committees to investigate the re cent elections iu louisiana florida ard south carolina but the senate has extend ed the range of its inquiry into alabama georgia and mississippi and included the years 1875 and 1876 by this latter proceeding the situation will be more complicated than it already is and new questions will be opened for angry dis cussion whether it was the intention of mr edmunds to divert the public mind from the monstrous frauds iu tbe three states which the returning boards have counted for hayes will appear hereafter it may be assumed in advance that these committees will disagree radically in their conclusions and in their coloring of the material facts in each case one side has to expose fraud of the worst kind and the other side has to sustain it consequently there is little if any hope of harmony in the reports after the paper which john sherman and his asso ciates signed in new orleans and their eulogy of ihe rerurniug board which republican committees had previously branded with infamy it is easy to foresee what sort of document howe mcmillian and wadleigh will lay before the senate the conspirators in south carolina florida and louisiana will of course throw every possible impediment iu the way of a searching investigation by the house committees until their owu friends of the senate appear upon the ground there is reason to believe tbey have been already advised to pursue that course from washington the original plan of mr morton was to conduct this investiga tion at washington but when the policy of the house was fully developed tbe programme was changed to its present form all the returns records and reports connected with the elections in these states are in the hands of kellogg cham berlain stearns and their subordinates who in some form or other were connect ed with the frauds that have been imposed on the country instead of the votes that were really cast they of course will not scruple at any means by which these iniquities may be ostensibly sustained if the suppression of evidence or the manufacture of testimony or the falsifi cation of papers be necessary there will be no lack of bands to produce them the senate will of course be guided by the reports of its own committees and will not consider even the minority views that may be presented the republicans have substantially made up tbeir minds and they are preparing a case for the public to defend that judgment they mean to count hayes in and they are sustained in that purpose by grant and all the power which his administration can exert all disguise has been thrown oft and every day develops some new scheme to promote this design the people who are watching the turn of events at washington will sift the wheal from the chaff of the two sets of reports that will probably be laid before congress by the end of this month truth will assert itself in spite of all attempts at perversion and the country will soon bet tie down to the conclusion which of the two hayes or tilden is fairly elected when three states with all the election machinery in the hands of the republi cans with the army stationed to help them under the orders of partisan mar shals and with thousands of deputies scattered at the public expense as elec tioneering agents return democratic ma jorities it will require something more than the stale charge of intimidalion to make the people of the united states ac cept the results declared in secret by three returning boards these committees will probably not exert the least influence in bringing the senate and house of representatives nearer together than they now are or in soft ening lhe asperities of the debates but the testimony collected by both will ena ble tbe great body of intelligent and in dependent men regard the present crisis as involving consequences far graver than the success of either tilden or hayes to form a candid judgment lhat will go far to shape public opinion which is more powerful than the president his cabinet aud all the conspirators around them combined â€” a t sun Â«â– â– â– Â» gen grant's alleged con tempt for judicial au thority the coarse language in reference to a state court attributed to gen grant in the reports in the public journals a few days since would be of comparatively minor importance were it not followed up by acts in strict accordance with its spirit the report was that the president of the united slates in an interview with mem bers of the national legislature used this extraordinary language : i don't care a damn for the supreme court of south carolina the action of the president has been suited to these words he does not seem to care for any civil authority he sends an armed soldier to keep men of an ad verse political faith out of the hall of a state legislature in fact so far as we are afforded the means of judging he cares for nothing except to carry out by bloodshed if need be his own partisan and personal designs it is to be hoped the walls of the white house will never again hear such words from the mouth of a president as we have just quoted and as a matter of taste for bear from quoting again close following on an utter disregard of the decisions of the established legal < tribunals tread the wildest anarchy and coufusiou â€” n y sun what the people should bear in mind it is for the interest of the republican party and of the conspirators who now control it that the progress and the final consummation ofthe plot to make a presi dent by fraud and force should be vio lently resisted they desire that the just passions of the people should be excited to the point of actual sedition in older that they may seize tbe opportunity to proclaim a new war to raise new armies to subjugate a new rebellion to hide their own crimes wiih new bloodshed and ruin ' and to gain a new and a long lease of power for themselves this is their in terest ; this is what they desire on the other hand it is for the interest ofthe sountry and especially of tbe con servative reform party which carried the election of last november that theie should be no outbreak no act of violence ' no attempt at forcible resistance to the conspiracy and the usurpation no oppor tunity for bloodshed and for armies the weapons by which this conspiracy can alone be safely and snrely resisted are moral weapons appeals to the con science the judgment and the patriotism of the people appeals to them to save the ' work of the fathers to maintain the con stitution to rescue free institutions the ultimate triumph of truth justice and law and the restoration of self-govern ment in this country all depend upon the ' preservation of peace everywhere make the contest one of reason and right aloue and reason and right will win make it one of force and reason and right will be destroyed n y sun some prophecies recalled the conspiracy to deprive the people of this uation of the right to choose their president was foreshadowed by prominent republicans even before the earliest voter bad thrown his ballot on the morning of the seventh of november the predic tions of mr blaine newton booth murat halstead and others have been verified so fully by the course of events up to this time that wo naturally recur to their language for light on the further develop ment of the plot three weeks before election day the following prophecy issued forth from the st louis jail where the republican editor of the globe democrat was then confined for whiskey thieving : no man elected by the process resorted to by the democrats of sonth carolina will ever be allowed to take his seat as president of the united stales this is our deliberate judg ment two weeks before election day james g blaine in a speech at buffalo predict ed tilden's election in case new york went democratic and then turning to his republican auditors asked will you allow him lo be inaugurated in that event two weeks before election day senator newton booth of california in the course of a talk with a reporter of the san francis co chronicle said : in the way matters stand at present in case the iinal declaration of tbe choice for president depended upon the acceptance of the vote of one or mere of the southern states to which troops had been sent lhe house would inevita bly refuse to alio it to be counted in and an appeal to force would be necessary in order to settle the matter reporter â€” what do vou mean by force ? senator booth â€” physical force â€” war * * * i think it is remarkably fortunate for the conn try that we have a republican president who is also commander-in-chief of the army so that in the event of any serious complications the government has at its head a man who will see it protected there arc a good nutny reasons why the democrats should not be suffered to gain control of the government two weeks before election day mr murat halstead editor of the strongest republican newspaper in the west and a close personal friend of mr hayes ventured on prophetic ground his lan guage was so remarkable that we printed it at lhe time and reproduced it here : if new york should happen to go demo cratic lhe probability is that there would be a disposition on the part of the republicans to throw out the votes of those southern states which were carried for tilden by the intimida tion of the blacks i have heard the suggestion made that it would be moral perjury in vice president ferry and president jrtint if they should consent to allow the electoral vote of states to be cast for the restoration of the south ern confederacy when they knew that a ma jority of the people of those states had been practically disfranchised and when they had in their hands the legal proof of that fact now if the presidential election should turn ti|>on the votes of say mississippi south carolina florida or louisiana it would be impossible to avoid a desperate dispute between the two legislative houses of the government the way is already prepared by the declara tions of republican senators lor mr ferry acting vice-president to assume the entire re sponsibility of counting the electoral votes â€¢ the house will not of course consent to this the next thing is the position of president â€¢ grant grant is the commander-in-chief of . the army and navy ofthe united states the very practical question would arise whether he would sustain mr ferry in the senate i im â€¢ agine that the weight of inference is that he would perhaps he would do it by proclama tion that is what in the spanish-american republics are called proaunciamientos the sit uation will be exceedingly difficult if not haz [ ardous trouble would come upon us in a more 1 dangerous shape than it did r.i xteen years ago there is a sort of mexican miasma in the polit cal air t at tbe time of their utterance these i vaticinations were generally regarded as - the voicings of demagogy or of folly in . the light of subsequent events they show t that two months ago the leaders of the ! office-holding party had already determin ed upon a desperate programme in case i of defeat at the polls whatever the re sult of the election they were not to be t disturbed in tbe enjoyment of place and i power to retain place and power they i were prepared to resort if necessary to mexican methods it will be seen that the programme of the conspirators as indicated by senator i booth and more expliciry by mr hal i stead has been carried out thus far tothe letter after all questions of fact of legality of constitutionality of policy and of moral right have been exhausted the issue is narrowed down to a qnestion of troops senator booth expressed his satisfaction that the military power was in the hands of a mau who would not hesita-e to employ it the conspirators counted upon this even before the election from the veiy first the success of tbe audacious scheme has depended upon his mexican habits of thought his careless ness of civil law his dogged fidelity to the interests of friends and favorites grant is the main stay of the conspiracy 0 u r slouch ways more iruth than poetry or lun either from natchez weekly democrat hallo stranger you seem to be going to market t yes sir i am what are you carrying that plow along for ?" going to send it to pittsburg to pittsburg in pennsylvania i you're mighty right ; i am w hat are you goiug to send it there for to get sharpened all the way to pittsburg to get shar pened you bet ! we've starved our black smith out ; he pulled up stakes the other day and went to texas well that's a rather novel idea my friend â€” sending a plow so far to get shar pened not so novel as you heard it was we do our milling in st louis is lhat so ?" you're right it is we used to have a mill at punkinvine creek but the own er got too poor to keep it up and so we turned to getting our grinding done at st louis you don't mean to say you send your grist all the way to st louis by rail t i don't say nothing about gris â€” we hain't got no gris to send but we get our flour and meal from st louis i see you have a hide on your wag on yes ; our old cow died last week march winds blowed the life out'n her sendin her hide to boston to get it tanned all the way to boston ? is not that rather expensive my friend t the freights will eat the hide up that's a fact â€” cleaner than the buz zards did the old critter's carcass but what's the use bein taxed to build rail roads thout you get the good of em used to have a tauyard over at l-ckskil let and shoemaker too but they're ker fllummuxed kerflummuxed â€” what's that ?" it means gone up a spout and twixt you and me that's mighty nigh the case with our state when do you expect to get your leather ?" don't expect to git no leather at all expect to get shoes some day made at boston or thereabouts rather a misfortune to lose a milk cow my friend not so much a misfortune as you heard it was monstrous sight of shuck in and unbinin a cow and milkin her night and mornin aud gettin only about 3 quarts a day " what are you going to do for milk i send north for it send north for milk ?" yes ; concentrated milk and goshen butter oh ! i see the point might handy thiogs these railroads â€” make them yankee fellers do all our jobs for us now â€” do our smitbin and grind and tannin and milkin and churniif i see jou have a bale of cotton yes we go our bottom nickel on cot ton sendin it up to massachusetts to get it carded and spun and wove â€” time'll come when we'll send it there to be ginned theu we'll be happy mono strous sight oi trouble running these gins that would be rather expensive sen ding cotton in seed no more so lhan them western fel lers pays when they send corn east and get a dollar a bushel and pays six bits freight besides as i said what is tbe use of paying for railroads thout we use the roads i think we ought we pay enough for em i reckon you fatten your own pork " well you reckon wrong stranger i cret them llliuoy fellers to do that for me it's mighty convenient too â€” monstrous sight of trouble toting a big basketful of corn three times a day to hogs in a pen â€” especially when you hain't got none to tote it to i should think eo there's one thing lacking though to make the business complete what's that ?" they ought to send ihem hogs ready cooked cooking and preparing wood for cookin takes up a heap of time that ort by right to be employed in the cotton patch 1 was sayin lo my old woman the other day if we mississippi 4olks g our cookin and washiu done cp north and sent by express we'd be as bappy as office holders yon i horse in the lead there seems to be lame yes need shoein if he wasn't the only horse i've got and i can't spare bim i would send him up where they make horse shoes and nails and get him shod can't get such a thing done in our parts perhaps i can at the de pot how do you manage to live in your part mv old irienh why we laise cotton my road turns off here stranger gee ball back ! brandy i'm glad i seed you stranger

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smew mr ha t jg the carolina watchman vol viii third series salisbury n c december 21 1876 no 10 ed w'kkki.y j j i'lu'nel eu and prop t k bruner associate ed si7bsckiption rates : ry r y ir payable in advance 2 no advertising hates : one inch one putrtlcason t oo tm . c - two pubuoauons 1 50 contra ' r:i '' '*â€¢ n '' m "'"' s '"' â€¢- â€¢ u ' ar - lkttki from washington jle universal topic democrats cheer fa â€” sherman to be president of the senau â€” northern democrats will sub wii if the senate scats hayes the ffousc will content itself with a pro test col waking's views washington i c , dec 9 1876 news : the residential muddle is the sole ionic of conversation in all circles here yâ€žu hear it in the capitol at lhe hotels md iudeed everywhere and yet nothing more can be learned here that in raleigh oi charlotte all that i can say is that our friends are hopeful of a peaceful so lution ll if rumored that the republi cans in id a caucus last night and bave determined to make senator sherman president of the senate if ihis should prove to be true the open attempt to htilk the voice of the two houses of con gress our friends hope will rather help than injure the right there is one thing certain lhat let the matt t result as it may peace will be preserved the northern democrats will submit and take these chances lo preserve civil lib erty d constitutional law through the future action of the two houses myopin imi is tiiat if the senate count in hayes the house will not go beyond a protest certainly will not at tempt to elect mr tilden wheu we recollect there is not . . democratic legislature in the north you will see at once how hopeless itch an attetupt must prove i have by i,d means given up all hope the action of the governor ot oregon may yet un ravel lhe gordinn knot it lhe congress decide thai the vice-president is merely g ministerial officer in counting and de claring the vote ih.it iil let iii the one vote foi tilden from oregon which will give him the constitutional majority li it should be decided lo go behind the cer tificate in lhat instance it opens the door and an invest igat ion iuto the vote of iln contested stales must follow of course mr bdiuuuds ot vermont has a propo onion before lhe senate to amend the constitution as to constitute the supreme courl lhe tribunal lo count the vote and delare lhe n-sult there are serious ob jections to this and it vill i think fail it is purely a political question and if adopted will do more to weakeu the con fidence titnl respecl the country has lor ibis august body than anything lhat lias ever happened our people should re main quiet an indiscreet act on the part ol any southern state will be quick ly seized upon and turned lo our disad vantage we in iy lose the fruit of our toil our hopes may be blighted but we will dot he one whit worse off than we have been for the past eight years our northern brethren love liberty but can not 1 thi:,k be made to believe that ii will be destroyed even if hayes is coun ted in by force and fraud your friend li p waking south arolina hampton inaugurated imposing ceremonies a lirtixc crowd â€” the house tops covered with spectators the inaugural address columbia s c dec 14 â€” the in auguration ot hampton took place in froul of arolina hall this afternoon thr square in front of the hall was densely packed by persons of both races and the house tons were covered with spectators at aaa o'clock hampton was escorted to the stand amid demoneia iiouboi greal enthusiasm the members of the geueral assembly occupied the pace immediately surrounding ibe stand with the crowd iu the rear gen hamp ton then read ins inaugural address t which lhe following is an extract gentlemen of the senate and house w representatives : it is with feeling of the profoundest solicitude that i assume the arduous duties and grave responsibil ities ol tbe high position to which lhe people of south carolina have called me i 'â€¢ amid events unprecedeuts iu this republic that 1 take the chair as chief magistrate ol ihis state in a time at profound peace when no legal officer hail been resisted in the proper discbarge ol h functions we have witnessed a specta cle abhorrent to every patriotic heart and fatal to republican institutions â€” federal troops used to promote the success of a political party undismayed though nx-cked by this gross violation of the fconstiiutjou of tlie country our people with a determination that no force could subdue oo fraud could defeat kept stead â– '}', and peacefully in the path of duty resf.lv.-d to assert tbeir right as american emen at ibe ballot box that great court f final resort before which must be tried the jruve question of tbe supremacy of l e constitution and the stability of nyr constituency and our institutions what the verdict of the people of south carolina hi been you need not be told it has vi rberated throughout the state and its echoes come back to us from every land here liberty is venerated declaring in tones that can not be mistaken that stand ing on the constitution ofour country we propose to obey the laws to preserve as far as in ue lies its peace and honor and to carry out in good faith every pledge made by us for reform and honest govern ment we intend to prove to the world the sincerity of our declarations that the sole motive which inspired the grand contest we have so successfully made was not the paltry ambition for party supremacy but tbe sacred hope of redeeming our state but it was sought to wrest the fruits of this victory from us by a gigantic fraud and a base conspiracy when the members elect of the general assembly re paired to the capitol to take seats armed soldiers of the federal government con fronted them and their certificates of elec tion were examined aud passed upon by a corporal of the guard it was amid these appaling scenes that the members of the general assembly were called on to assume their duties as the representatives of i free state and that state one of tbe original thirteen who won our independ ence and framed our constitution was j debarred the free exercise of their rights i bv the presence of an armed force a legal quorum ofthe lower house after i placing on record their protest quietly withdrew from the capitol and proceeded to organize that branch of the geueral assembly you bave seen a minority of the house usurp the powers of the whole body you have seen the majority expelu ed from their hall by threats of force you have seen persons having no shadow of a claim as members admitted to seats as representatives by the votes of men who themselves were acting in direct violation of the constitution and you have seen the last crowning act of infamy by which a candidate for the office of governor de feated by the popular vote had himself declared elecied by his conspirators it is due to my position as the chief magis trate of this commonwealth to place on ! record my solemn and indignant protest again t acts which i consider as subversive ol civil liberty aud destructive ofour form of government a great task is before the conservative party of this state tbey entered on ibis contest with a platform so broad so strong eo liberal that every honest citizen could stand upon it tbey recognized and accepted the amendments to the con stitution in good fiith they themselves to work reform and to establish good government they promised to keep up an efficient system of public education and ihey declared solemnly that all citizens of south carolina of both races and of tioth parties should be regarded equal in lhe eye of the law all to be fully protect ed in the enjoyment of every political tight now possessed by them to tbe faithful observance of these pledges we stand committed and as the representa tive of the conservative party i held myself bound by every dictate of honor and of good faith to use every effort to bave the pledges redeemed fully and hon estly let us show to all of tbein that tin true interest of both races can best be secured by cultivating peace and promo ting prosperity among all classes of our fellow citizens i rely confidently on the support of the membeia of the general assembly in my efforts to attain these laudable ends and i trust that all branch es of the government will unite cordially in this patriotic work ll so united and working with resolute will and earnest determination we may hope soon lo see the dawn of a brighter day for our stale god in his infinite mercy grant that it may come speedily a;id may he shower the richest blessings of peace and happi ness on our whole people at the close of the address the oath of office was administered by trial justice marshall hampton as governor and to w d simpson as lieu't governor the crowd standing uncovered while tbe cer emony was being performed the chair in which gen hampton was seated wa then wrapped in the national colors and lie was borne on the shoulders ofa dozen men to liis hotel escorted by the entire crowd several promiueut gentlemen addressed the multitude from the front of the hotel the congressional committee occupying a prominent position on oue of the balconies after which the crowd quietly dispersed indiana an appeal lhat means something â€” the lhe people thoroughly aroused â€” the constitution mast be kept inviolate ixnianarolis dec 14 â€” the demo cratic committee has issued an address io the people of indiana which calls upon all people without respect to party who make our country's welfare paramount to every other consideration all who say that the vote of the people shall not be defeated by fraud and all who stand by fair-play and honesty to meet at their coun ty seats on december 23d to make expres sion ofthe popular judgment that cannot be disregarded and to appoint men as their delegates to a slate convention on january 8th who will fearlessly and pru i dently make such declaration and take action as will give our state her proper : position and influence in maintaining the i constitution the government and its rights aud the liberties of the people washington dec 14 â€” tbe counter statement signed by secretary chandler furnished to tbe press at midnight con â€¢ eludes hayes and wheeler are elected and the will of tbe american people will be carried otftand ujaiuuiued the blue ridge blade of the 12th announces tbe death on tuesday morning last of col w f mckesson of mor ganton south carolina returns in the office of the secretary of state shows hampton's election â€” the secretary so certifies under seal of the state washington d c , dec 15.â€”be fore the inauguration of hampton speak er wallace produced and read the follow ing official statement from the secretary of state : vote for governor elected in 1876 hampton 92,261 votes chamberlain 91,127 votes office of the sec y of state / columbia s c dec 9 76 $ i j ii e hayne secretary of state do h#reby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct statement of the vote for gov ernor at the general election of 1876 as ap pears by the commissioners 1 returns now ou file at this office given under my hand and tbe seal ofthe state at columbia this the 9th day of december 1s76 and in th 100th year of ainericau independence signed j ii e hayxr sec'y of state columbia dec 15 â€” the house com mittee examined several witnesses and have obtained returns from nearly all the precincts but about fifteen which will be supplied by testimony w d simpson democratic lieutenant governor to-day sent a letter to lhe senate claiming his election and demanding bis seat as pre siding officer of that body the letter was read and referred to the judiciary committee for report another ballot was taken to-day for united states sen ator by the democrats iu joint session the vote was scattering no choice louisiana where the affidavits of the returning hoards are prepared new orleans dec 15 clover supervisor of east biton rouge submit ted a copy of the affidavit which accom panied his returns alleging riot tumult vialence fear dread terrorism through out the parish on the day of the election clover diil not witness violence was in formed of it t)n cross examination he said the affidavit was prepared in the custom house of this city hugh j campbell assisted in preparing it chamberlain's incendiaries at work charleston dec 15 twenty stores and residences including the depot ex press and telegraph office at blackevillp barnwell county were burned loss 840,000 il is believed to be the work of an incendiary also a 11,000 incen diary fire in florence the public debt the effort made by the legislature o ls74-'?5 to consolidate the debt of the state proves iu the main almost entirely fruitless the act of 1874-"75 entitled an act to compromise commute and settle the stale debt authorized the issuance f new bonds of the slate for certain classes of old bonds at rates fixed by the statute the whole scheme res ted upou the willingness of the creditors to make the exchange provided for and the law was therefore experimental in its nature intending it as such a period was fixed for the operations of the act section 9 says that the provisions of this act for tbe exchange and issue of bonds shall continue in force until the first day of january 1878 " but a short time then remaius for the further execu tion ofthe act and unless re-enacted it must soon become a dead letter on the statute books in a cornmunicatian from the slate treasurer to the general asÂ«embly which we point an another page this morning it is distinctly set forth to whtu extent there has been a compliance on the part of the creditors of the state wit ii tha act of 1874-'75 nothing has been done by the treasurer towards carrying the act into effect the reasons for this are fully stated the sum of it is that the public creditors declined the propo sition of the state mr jenkins reports that up to june 24 1s7g there had been only 2:2 s00 offered calling for 89,030 of bond and that at that dale 8483,600 more were offend calling for 8121,350 of the new bonds as the expanse of en graving bonds would be considerable mr jenkins did not think it advisable to in cur such expeuses when only about one bond in fifteen or twenty would be brought in in addition to this he gives other substantial reasons for his uou-co-n plidiice â€” such as the physicial impossi bility to sign lhe coupons as required and sundry defects in the law which would be developed in its execuiion on the whole it was manifestly bis duty to defer tbe matter to the nipeting of the general assembly when the defective portions ofthe act might be cured the question now arises shall this act be re enacted after the 1st of january next with amendments suggested by the wisdom of the present legislature or shall the law be allowed to become a dead letter and the whol6 question of the settlement of the public debt be suffered to fall back to where il was before the act passed by the last general assem bly ? tbe subject is one of vital importance to north carolina i'he duty of re-es tablishing at the earliest possible moment the credit of the state rests npon us with paramount obligations at this time it is a duty which should be boldly met and discharged for iu the language of the preamble to the act of 1874-'75 the good people of this state are desirous of assuming and paying to the public cred itor's so much of the just debt of the state aa their unfortunate condition will allow â€” ral newe j no illusions ! - this is no time to indulge in pleasing illusions what the people should un derstand is the exact truth startling and revolting as it may be in stating this trutb we do not proceed upon imagina tion or conjecture the plan is clearly defined and proclaimed by republicans themselves without any effort at disguise or concealment by law the votes of the electoral col leges are to be counted on the second wednesday in february and that law it is proposed to respect hitherto this du ty has been discharged in the hall of the house of representatives on occasion of the last three elections the rule has prevailed and has not been disputed or queslioned that while the counting was done by the two houses together as has been the practice from the beginning of the government the objection of either house to the vote of any state sufficed to exclude that state altogether from the count now however a different meth od is to be introduced the opening of the votes and the counting is to be done in the senate chamber because ai the washington correspondent of the tribune informs the public ihere are grave reasons why the senate should not put itself in the power of the house which need not now be more than hinted at the president of the senate having the returns in big hands is to open those that he deems proper to count them by himself alone and declare the result as he sees it only those envelopes from the disputed states that he knows to contain votes for hayes will be opened by him and the others will be altogether ignored whether they contain a governor's certificate or not the house is to be invited to be present in the senate chamber but is not to be allowed to have any voice as regards the coon ting to offer objections to the vote of any state or to take any action what ever beyond being present to witness what is done and said by tbe president of lhe senate thus mr hayes is to be declared elected and if the house should make any troublesome demonstration gen grant will deal with it if said grant on sunday as he is reported iu the a y times of yesterday if there should be any necessity for more troops he would order them to washington we should have peace if we had to fight for it next comes the inauguration on the 4th of march this is also to be managed by gen grant with the soldiers and the bayonets of the united states this scheme involves the necessity for getting control of the house of repre sentatives aud this cud is to be attained by means similar to those employed to make hayes president by counting out mimbers really elected in louisiana south carolina and florida tbe actual democratic majority in lhe next house is believed to have been already reduced to only one member while there are three vacancies in new hampshire t > be filled at the annual election in march next these three vacancies must be filled by republicans a year ago the tribune in a long review of new hampshire poli tics stated that any election in lhat state could be carried by bribery by this means or by any other it is intended that after mr hayes has been inaugura ted a working majority shall be made for him in the house of representatives since without this it would be impossible for him to carry on the government as it is not expected that tiie present house will vote any general appropriations that can be availed of after thp end of the present fiscal year this is the scheme just us it stands for this scheme the republican party and all the statesmen of lhat parly so far stand responsible no voice of dissent against it has yet been heard fiom any republican quarter influential or not in fluential the republicans have the physical power tbe army is theirs just as the returning boards of the south are theirs and no illusion about tbeir purpose to use this power to the bitter end can auy longer be admitted the consummation of their purpose means lhe end of government by the people through elections and the substitu tion of government by an oligarchy of officeholders through public robbers or . ganized as returning boards supported by soldiers and scorning law and lhe forms of law senator ferry the denial by mr ferry the praident of the senate that he had expressed the opinion that the president of lhe senate would count as well as open lhe electoral vote is a good sign unless mr ferry does so hold it would seem impossible to carry out the radical programme mr ferry was by a formal resolution of the senate declared to be the president of lhe senate during the present congress this was done after the death of vice president wilson and in order to settle the right to the succession in case presi dent grant should die the radical pro gramme is to remove mr ferry and put senator sherman in his place to which little operation the michigan senator will doubtless very seriously object indeed it may be set down that without his ac tive co-operation the whole scheme will be a failure it is a matter of sincere con gratulation therefore to learn that he so emphatically denies having given expres sion to the opiniou altribated to bim â€” ral observer true the new york herald is in its radical week hut it very truly remarks that the refusal of the louisiana returning board to obey the subpoena of the committee of congress sent t investigate tbeir proceed ings does not look well â€” ral observer the two sets of^tom^utrtees both houses of congress have ap pointed committees to investigate the re cent elections iu louisiana florida ard south carolina but the senate has extend ed the range of its inquiry into alabama georgia and mississippi and included the years 1875 and 1876 by this latter proceeding the situation will be more complicated than it already is and new questions will be opened for angry dis cussion whether it was the intention of mr edmunds to divert the public mind from the monstrous frauds iu tbe three states which the returning boards have counted for hayes will appear hereafter it may be assumed in advance that these committees will disagree radically in their conclusions and in their coloring of the material facts in each case one side has to expose fraud of the worst kind and the other side has to sustain it consequently there is little if any hope of harmony in the reports after the paper which john sherman and his asso ciates signed in new orleans and their eulogy of ihe rerurniug board which republican committees had previously branded with infamy it is easy to foresee what sort of document howe mcmillian and wadleigh will lay before the senate the conspirators in south carolina florida and louisiana will of course throw every possible impediment iu the way of a searching investigation by the house committees until their owu friends of the senate appear upon the ground there is reason to believe tbey have been already advised to pursue that course from washington the original plan of mr morton was to conduct this investiga tion at washington but when the policy of the house was fully developed tbe programme was changed to its present form all the returns records and reports connected with the elections in these states are in the hands of kellogg cham berlain stearns and their subordinates who in some form or other were connect ed with the frauds that have been imposed on the country instead of the votes that were really cast they of course will not scruple at any means by which these iniquities may be ostensibly sustained if the suppression of evidence or the manufacture of testimony or the falsifi cation of papers be necessary there will be no lack of bands to produce them the senate will of course be guided by the reports of its own committees and will not consider even the minority views that may be presented the republicans have substantially made up tbeir minds and they are preparing a case for the public to defend that judgment they mean to count hayes in and they are sustained in that purpose by grant and all the power which his administration can exert all disguise has been thrown oft and every day develops some new scheme to promote this design the people who are watching the turn of events at washington will sift the wheal from the chaff of the two sets of reports that will probably be laid before congress by the end of this month truth will assert itself in spite of all attempts at perversion and the country will soon bet tie down to the conclusion which of the two hayes or tilden is fairly elected when three states with all the election machinery in the hands of the republi cans with the army stationed to help them under the orders of partisan mar shals and with thousands of deputies scattered at the public expense as elec tioneering agents return democratic ma jorities it will require something more than the stale charge of intimidalion to make the people of the united states ac cept the results declared in secret by three returning boards these committees will probably not exert the least influence in bringing the senate and house of representatives nearer together than they now are or in soft ening lhe asperities of the debates but the testimony collected by both will ena ble tbe great body of intelligent and in dependent men regard the present crisis as involving consequences far graver than the success of either tilden or hayes to form a candid judgment lhat will go far to shape public opinion which is more powerful than the president his cabinet aud all the conspirators around them combined â€” a t sun Â«â– â– â– Â» gen grant's alleged con tempt for judicial au thority the coarse language in reference to a state court attributed to gen grant in the reports in the public journals a few days since would be of comparatively minor importance were it not followed up by acts in strict accordance with its spirit the report was that the president of the united slates in an interview with mem bers of the national legislature used this extraordinary language : i don't care a damn for the supreme court of south carolina the action of the president has been suited to these words he does not seem to care for any civil authority he sends an armed soldier to keep men of an ad verse political faith out of the hall of a state legislature in fact so far as we are afforded the means of judging he cares for nothing except to carry out by bloodshed if need be his own partisan and personal designs it is to be hoped the walls of the white house will never again hear such words from the mouth of a president as we have just quoted and as a matter of taste for bear from quoting again close following on an utter disregard of the decisions of the established legal < tribunals tread the wildest anarchy and coufusiou â€” n y sun what the people should bear in mind it is for the interest of the republican party and of the conspirators who now control it that the progress and the final consummation ofthe plot to make a presi dent by fraud and force should be vio lently resisted they desire that the just passions of the people should be excited to the point of actual sedition in older that they may seize tbe opportunity to proclaim a new war to raise new armies to subjugate a new rebellion to hide their own crimes wiih new bloodshed and ruin ' and to gain a new and a long lease of power for themselves this is their in terest ; this is what they desire on the other hand it is for the interest ofthe sountry and especially of tbe con servative reform party which carried the election of last november that theie should be no outbreak no act of violence ' no attempt at forcible resistance to the conspiracy and the usurpation no oppor tunity for bloodshed and for armies the weapons by which this conspiracy can alone be safely and snrely resisted are moral weapons appeals to the con science the judgment and the patriotism of the people appeals to them to save the ' work of the fathers to maintain the con stitution to rescue free institutions the ultimate triumph of truth justice and law and the restoration of self-govern ment in this country all depend upon the ' preservation of peace everywhere make the contest one of reason and right aloue and reason and right will win make it one of force and reason and right will be destroyed n y sun some prophecies recalled the conspiracy to deprive the people of this uation of the right to choose their president was foreshadowed by prominent republicans even before the earliest voter bad thrown his ballot on the morning of the seventh of november the predic tions of mr blaine newton booth murat halstead and others have been verified so fully by the course of events up to this time that wo naturally recur to their language for light on the further develop ment of the plot three weeks before election day the following prophecy issued forth from the st louis jail where the republican editor of the globe democrat was then confined for whiskey thieving : no man elected by the process resorted to by the democrats of sonth carolina will ever be allowed to take his seat as president of the united stales this is our deliberate judg ment two weeks before election day james g blaine in a speech at buffalo predict ed tilden's election in case new york went democratic and then turning to his republican auditors asked will you allow him lo be inaugurated in that event two weeks before election day senator newton booth of california in the course of a talk with a reporter of the san francis co chronicle said : in the way matters stand at present in case the iinal declaration of tbe choice for president depended upon the acceptance of the vote of one or mere of the southern states to which troops had been sent lhe house would inevita bly refuse to alio it to be counted in and an appeal to force would be necessary in order to settle the matter reporter â€” what do vou mean by force ? senator booth â€” physical force â€” war * * * i think it is remarkably fortunate for the conn try that we have a republican president who is also commander-in-chief of the army so that in the event of any serious complications the government has at its head a man who will see it protected there arc a good nutny reasons why the democrats should not be suffered to gain control of the government two weeks before election day mr murat halstead editor of the strongest republican newspaper in the west and a close personal friend of mr hayes ventured on prophetic ground his lan guage was so remarkable that we printed it at lhe time and reproduced it here : if new york should happen to go demo cratic lhe probability is that there would be a disposition on the part of the republicans to throw out the votes of those southern states which were carried for tilden by the intimida tion of the blacks i have heard the suggestion made that it would be moral perjury in vice president ferry and president jrtint if they should consent to allow the electoral vote of states to be cast for the restoration of the south ern confederacy when they knew that a ma jority of the people of those states had been practically disfranchised and when they had in their hands the legal proof of that fact now if the presidential election should turn ti|>on the votes of say mississippi south carolina florida or louisiana it would be impossible to avoid a desperate dispute between the two legislative houses of the government the way is already prepared by the declara tions of republican senators lor mr ferry acting vice-president to assume the entire re sponsibility of counting the electoral votes â€¢ the house will not of course consent to this the next thing is the position of president â€¢ grant grant is the commander-in-chief of . the army and navy ofthe united states the very practical question would arise whether he would sustain mr ferry in the senate i im â€¢ agine that the weight of inference is that he would perhaps he would do it by proclama tion that is what in the spanish-american republics are called proaunciamientos the sit uation will be exceedingly difficult if not haz [ ardous trouble would come upon us in a more 1 dangerous shape than it did r.i xteen years ago there is a sort of mexican miasma in the polit cal air t at tbe time of their utterance these i vaticinations were generally regarded as - the voicings of demagogy or of folly in . the light of subsequent events they show t that two months ago the leaders of the ! office-holding party had already determin ed upon a desperate programme in case i of defeat at the polls whatever the re sult of the election they were not to be t disturbed in tbe enjoyment of place and i power to retain place and power they i were prepared to resort if necessary to mexican methods it will be seen that the programme of the conspirators as indicated by senator i booth and more expliciry by mr hal i stead has been carried out thus far tothe letter after all questions of fact of legality of constitutionality of policy and of moral right have been exhausted the issue is narrowed down to a qnestion of troops senator booth expressed his satisfaction that the military power was in the hands of a mau who would not hesita-e to employ it the conspirators counted upon this even before the election from the veiy first the success of tbe audacious scheme has depended upon his mexican habits of thought his careless ness of civil law his dogged fidelity to the interests of friends and favorites grant is the main stay of the conspiracy 0 u r slouch ways more iruth than poetry or lun either from natchez weekly democrat hallo stranger you seem to be going to market t yes sir i am what are you carrying that plow along for ?" going to send it to pittsburg to pittsburg in pennsylvania i you're mighty right ; i am w hat are you goiug to send it there for to get sharpened all the way to pittsburg to get shar pened you bet ! we've starved our black smith out ; he pulled up stakes the other day and went to texas well that's a rather novel idea my friend â€” sending a plow so far to get shar pened not so novel as you heard it was we do our milling in st louis is lhat so ?" you're right it is we used to have a mill at punkinvine creek but the own er got too poor to keep it up and so we turned to getting our grinding done at st louis you don't mean to say you send your grist all the way to st louis by rail t i don't say nothing about gris â€” we hain't got no gris to send but we get our flour and meal from st louis i see you have a hide on your wag on yes ; our old cow died last week march winds blowed the life out'n her sendin her hide to boston to get it tanned all the way to boston ? is not that rather expensive my friend t the freights will eat the hide up that's a fact â€” cleaner than the buz zards did the old critter's carcass but what's the use bein taxed to build rail roads thout you get the good of em used to have a tauyard over at l-ckskil let and shoemaker too but they're ker fllummuxed kerflummuxed â€” what's that ?" it means gone up a spout and twixt you and me that's mighty nigh the case with our state when do you expect to get your leather ?" don't expect to git no leather at all expect to get shoes some day made at boston or thereabouts rather a misfortune to lose a milk cow my friend not so much a misfortune as you heard it was monstrous sight of shuck in and unbinin a cow and milkin her night and mornin aud gettin only about 3 quarts a day " what are you going to do for milk i send north for it send north for milk ?" yes ; concentrated milk and goshen butter oh ! i see the point might handy thiogs these railroads â€” make them yankee fellers do all our jobs for us now â€” do our smitbin and grind and tannin and milkin and churniif i see jou have a bale of cotton yes we go our bottom nickel on cot ton sendin it up to massachusetts to get it carded and spun and wove â€” time'll come when we'll send it there to be ginned theu we'll be happy mono strous sight oi trouble running these gins that would be rather expensive sen ding cotton in seed no more so lhan them western fel lers pays when they send corn east and get a dollar a bushel and pays six bits freight besides as i said what is tbe use of paying for railroads thout we use the roads i think we ought we pay enough for em i reckon you fatten your own pork " well you reckon wrong stranger i cret them llliuoy fellers to do that for me it's mighty convenient too â€” monstrous sight of trouble toting a big basketful of corn three times a day to hogs in a pen â€” especially when you hain't got none to tote it to i should think eo there's one thing lacking though to make the business complete what's that ?" they ought to send ihem hogs ready cooked cooking and preparing wood for cookin takes up a heap of time that ort by right to be employed in the cotton patch 1 was sayin lo my old woman the other day if we mississippi 4olks g our cookin and washiu done cp north and sent by express we'd be as bappy as office holders yon i horse in the lead there seems to be lame yes need shoein if he wasn't the only horse i've got and i can't spare bim i would send him up where they make horse shoes and nails and get him shod can't get such a thing done in our parts perhaps i can at the de pot how do you manage to live in your part mv old irienh why we laise cotton my road turns off here stranger gee ball back ! brandy i'm glad i seed you stranger